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INTRODUCTION 

BY BURDICK 

"Back Lot Schoines" was written 
and jilaced on the market nearly two 
years u^v. l^erhaps no work of a sim- 
ilar natui'e was ever distributed that 
created the furore that this one has. 
From ])ra('tically all over the worlil 
has come to me praise and testimonials 
for ' ' Back Lot Schemes. ' ' Hundreds 
of people have sent me their unso- 
licited endorsements. Hundreds have 
told me of the help that the book has 
been to them. Many hundreds have 
written me, asking, "When win you 
have another one?" 

It is j^artly to meet this demanj 
that 1 have written ' ' Schemes in 
Dirt" as a companion to "Back Lot 
Schemes." Jt seems to be wanted. 
My friends are waiting for it. 

Since writing "Back Lot Schemes" 
I have been in receipt of letters from 
all over the country containing hints, 
tips and plans. I find that I have 
hardlv, as vet, tapped this wonderful 
field.' 

I have discovered some wonderful 
things — unusual, extraordinary ways 
of making all the way from a good 
living to a bank account, out of doors, 
in the back yard, city lot, or honie 
acre. One cannot imagine the multi- 
ple of novel schemes there are until 
one investigates and gets deeply intc 
it. I have investigated, and gotten in- 
to it clear up to my chin. 

Always the author of a work of this 
kind is liable to mistakes — liable to 
become, perhaps, the victim of mis- 
place(i confidence. In "Back Lot 
Schemes" two such errors crept in. 
No man is perfect. 

My newest work, "Schemes in 
Dirt, ' ' is the fruit of ripened experi- 
ence and investigation. It is the net 
result of later years of observation 
and study. I consider this new book 
to be miles ahead of "Back Lot 
Schemes." This is "going some," 
but J believe you will bear me out in 
this assertion after you have read it. 

There is room for every man and 
every woman here. Somewhere you 
will find herein — within the pages of 
this book — something that will make 
you a living. This is positive — abso- 
lute! Be guided by the instructions 
of the author. He has been studyin:^ 
for you — scheming for you these many 
years. 

The author has no dearer hope in 
life than the hojie that his books may 
help thousands out into the sunshine 
and that they may find there a living 
and a liank account. 

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If that Pekin Duck had succeeded 
in hopping or flopping over that two- 
foot fence this story would never have 
been written; because the aforesaid 
P. D. failed, ignoniiniously and ab- 
surdly, in negotiating that two-foot 
fence Billy Jones is today in the en- 
joyment of approximately twenty thou- 
sand dollars per year. Such is life! 
Upon such foolish and apparently in- 
consequential incidents hinge human 
destinies. 

Billy Jones, fat, scjualid, freckle(l- 
faced and squint-eyed, ambling aim- 
lessly down the road, came to a me- 
chanical pause at the sound of a dis- 
consolate "quack." A large Pekin 
Duck, with silly combination of hop 
and flo]), was trying to get over a 
board fence and go elsewhere. 

Idly Billy watched him make a 
dozen futile attempts, then give it up 
and waddle disgruntedly away. Then, 
with a waddle verj^ nearly the coun- 
terparterpart of the duck 's, Billy am- 
bled down the road. 

Had the duck succeeded in the ef- 
forts he was making Billy would have 
forgotten the incident in twenty sec- 
onds. The contrary being the case, 
Billy is today drawing down the in- 
come of a bank president who enjoys 
the confidence of his depositors pre- 
vious to the deluge. 

Perhaps a clue to Billy's thoughts 
as he shuffled down the })ike may serve 
to clear up the above paradoxical 
statements. ' ' Don 't take much of a 
fence to hold a duck," he meditated. 
"Put a bunch of them in a pasture, 
build a two-foot fence around it and 
there you are. ' ' 

Ten minutes more of this idle think- 
ing an<l then a positive idea soaked 
through to Billy's heavy brain. 

"Thunder! Here I am sweating 
away in a hot factory for ^'9 per — 
ducks worth almost a dollar apiece in 
the market and thousands of them can 
be raised on a five-acre lot with a two- 
foot fence around it!" And Billy al- 



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wasted life. 

They called him "pie face'' and 
"dough nose" at the factory. About 
one fight per week had previously been 
the result. The balance of this sum- 
mer, however, Billy didn't even hear 
these pet names, much less resent them. 
He didn't have the time; he was too 
busy raising ducks on paper and 
spending his inmginary fortune. He 
was obsessed with an idea and trod 
mostly on air. And it came to pass 
that fall that Billy acquired his "foun- 
dation stock," ten ducks and a cou- 
ple of gentlemen ducks to bear them 
company. He ^jut up a little lean-to, 
secured the use of five acres of land 
and put a two-foot fence around it. 
Fine! Everything was working out 
just according to program. 

The following spring — I almost hate 
to go on with this story — things didn't 
seem to go right. It's the story of a 
balky incubator and a greenhorn. You 
know what I mean? First hatch; for- 
got to turn the eggs for four days ac- 
cording to instructions. Result, one 
lone duckling Avith ringbones on both 
legs. It's a wonder lie got that many. 

Second hatch: Billy turned those 
eggs like they were his own brothers. 
He never forgot them once. But one 
chilly night the lamp went neai'ly out. 
the eggs became chilled and, result, 
seven ducklings. Those seven, how- 
ever, looked dreadfully good to Billv. 
That is, the first day they did. Tlie 
family cat got the bunch that night. 

Third and last hatch; Billy faith- 
fully turned his eggs; he watched his 
thermometer; result, 71 ducdvlings! 
Billy once more became an optimist. 
He builded him a cat-proof coop on a 
nice plat of grass with approved out- 
door brooder attachment and om:-e 
more began estimating his profits for 
three years of successful duck incuba- 
tion. Poor William! He did not 
know how fond Br'er Rat is of tender 
ducklings for breakfast. They disap- 
I^eared — one by one — two by two — 
and Billy tore his hair and raged and 
fumed. They simply faded away and 
at the end of a week but eleven re- 
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them. They died. End of the first 
yeav — slow eiutain. 

You wouUl probably have quit here, 
wouldn't you? Tliat illustrates the 
diflference. Billy didn't! lie simply 
practiced deep breathing all winter — 
and read U[>! Studied up! Gingered 
up! 

Second year: Bullv! Four hatches, 
212 healthy ducklings! Billy had it 
all figured out what this ilock 
would evolute into the third year and 
again the fourth year; then the world 
shuddered on its axis and once more 
came to an end. They began to die. 
They died in bunches in spite of Billy's 
frantic efforts. In two weeks his flock 
was reduced to HI and they were 
coughing badly. 

For the first time Billy became a pes- 
simist. "Luck!" he grunted. "What's 
the use. ' ' Later on, when he knew 
more, he found it was corn meal, not 
luck. 

Eight here is where you would have 
got ''cold feet'' and hunted for a job 
under the "white lights'' — you l\uow 



it! Billy was different. He recovered 
his wind, studied some more, took a 
trip to Long Island and asked ques- 
tions. Result: Third year, 500 duck- 
lings, and he raised most of them. 
That was seven years ago. Last year 
28,500 ducks marketed at an average 
net profit of 82 cents each. Billy 
didn't quit like you diil! 

Once in a while Billy 's automobile 
stops at his old workshop and he goes 
in. The same old "push" is there — 
all but one fellow who got married 
to a woman who washes and he doesn 't 
have to work any more. They don 't 
call him "pie face' and "dough 
nose ' ' and more. * ' Good morning, Mr. 
Jones." That's the way it sounds 
now. 

Moral: 

Billy Jones was a slow thinker. He 
was what the world called ' ' dull ' ' and 
"stupid.'' Probably your brains are 
of better quality than his. If he could 
do things, can't vou .' Let it soak in 
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Selling Geese At $9 Each 



Some time ago 1 spoke of " stuft'- 
ing" geese and cite<l some farmers 
over in Watertown, Wis., who were 
acquiring wealth via stuffed geese. 
Their method creates a goose weigh- 
ing ;!0 pounds and worth 30 cents the 
jiound. 

1 called upon our constituents for 
their experience and a kind friend in 
Brooklyn has sent us the exact form- 
ula used. He will herewith accept my 
thanks for his courtesy. 1 give the 
process in his own words: 

"Stuffing'' geese is only done from 
the first of October until February. 
]f it is done on a small scale, make 
stalls for every one so they just have 
room enough to stand, or at least so 
arranged that they cannot run around 
much; get the cheapest flour, say 20 
pounds; boil 4 pounds potatoes and 
mash them; soak three loaves stale 
bread and 1-2 pound salt; add a tea- 
spoonful ground pepper; of these in- 



gi-edients make a dough stiff enough to 
form noodles about 2 1-2 inches long 
and as thick as the little finger; put 
them in a pan and bake them; make 
enough of them so they may always 
be one day old when fed. 

These noodles are forced down with 
the left hand. 

The Method. 

Take the goose by the head ami 
open the mouth and with your hand 
force the noodles in. The first ;-! days 
give two every two hours, from 4 in 
the morning till 12 at night; the 4th 
day give them three every two hours; 
the 5th day 4 and keep on increasing 
until you are giving them 20 every 
2 hours. This seems a lot, but they 
take it. For the next six davs give 
them 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 10, 8'. Give 
them plenty of fresh water with sand 
in. The day they get the last 8 is the 
last day; they are then to be killed. 
Stuffing them in this way makes them 
weigh up to 28 pounds; the liver alone 
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in my wonls insteail of his, because I 
enn get to the point much quicker than 
he. 

It is the same ohl story of which 
we have heard so much; hopeless, 
heart-breaking toil in the sweatshops 
of a great city; a miserable income 
TJint only half reached in the present 
eia of high prices; helpless beating of 
fronzied wings against the iron meshes 
Ml the cage; wild repining and blind- 
i;ro})iug forth for a means of relief — 
finally the breaking of health and loss 
of position — you 've heard the story — 
you know the threadbare and worn de- 
rails — and Goil help these thousands 
i)]>on thousands of entrapped and har- 
ried souls whose stories all read the 
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There came a time when the limit 
•.v;,s leached; no wurlv, no money, and 
fi body wasted from disease and worry. 
Vihat'was he to do? What would YOU 
.'iir? This is what he did: Way out 
;m the distant suburl> he found a little 
house — no, "shacdv"' is the proper 
term. All around it a bleak prairie — 
a "sub-division" which failed to make 
irood. T'he rent was almost nothing. 

The expressman happened to be a 
friend ; the moving expenses were sat- 
isfactoriiy arranged. Sympathetic 

neighbois, seeing how the matter 
stood, "chipped in.'' At the sweat- 
shop v.here the best years of his life 
were sjient, his fellow employes lent a 
hand — AND — let the recording angels 
here make note — the wealthy employer 
who fed upon this worker's strength, 
suidxed it dry — then kicked him out — 
chipped in for 50 cents! 

That first year in the "shack" was 
a never-to-be-forgotten one. A neigh- 
lioring teamster ploughed one acre of 
••sub-division" land for him; the 
-.vhole family dug and toiled and 
■^'•raped; that summer and fall, in spite 
of all handicaps, they had loads and 
loads and loads of "green stuff" to 
sell. 

The edge of the city proper was only 
*wo miles away; he managed to make 



the raise of an old horse and wagon — 
and he peddled all day long. 

That fall he made a discovery — 
worth more to him than all tlic goi<l 
and diamond mines in far-away Gol- 
conda! He discovered that his health 
had all returned! And right here he 
once more began to live! ^ ^ * 

It was poultry which at last lu'ought 
him real prosperity, and it's his 
"scheme" I started to narrate when 
I digressed to the recital of his early 
struggles. 

The second year he i)rogressed and 
saved a little money; "chickens"' 
seemed the thing and he studied out 
a plan for a quick start. He made a 
l)rooder — homely but serviceable, and 
bought 100 "day-old chicks." They 
flourished about as chickens do; he 
made another brooder and bought 100 
more. That fall he had on hand 70 
pullets and 81 cockerels. 

He grew apace. All this happened 
some years ago. Today he owns the 
land on which the "shack" stands — 
but the "shack"' is now a hen house. 
He has built a nicer home and owns 
some acres of that "sub-division"' 
land. 

Perhaps YOU — with strugglings and 
ti'ouble of your own — or YOU whom 
jirosperity has always smiled u])on — 
may not consider it worth the while 
to read all the above to leach at last 
the following extract which forms the 
key — the ' ' scheme: ' ' 

"My whole scheme is 'Broilers'-' T 
have now brooder room for 3,000. In 
another three years I expect to have 
brooder room for 20,000. Instead of 
hatching them myself I buy them al- 
ready hatched. Thev cost me around 
."fJSO.OO per 1,000 wnen one day old. I 
have the raising of them down to a 
science and average 90 per cent in 
raising. Thus from o,000 chicks I av- 
erage better than 2,500 to market at 
the broiler age. I buy only the larger 
breeds, mostly Plymouth Rocks. They 
bring me an average of one dollar 
each. Each .'!,000 chicks cost me less 
than .4-250 from the hatchery. 1 clear 
now, barring unusual back lu(d<, about 
^1,200.00 yearly from my ' Broler 
Plant.' Later, say in three years, 1 
expect to quadruple this.'' 

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J the Inst chapter but 110 particulars 4, 

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X of the poultry business that it is wor- ^lie priii,-ipal r<',|uisite is a satisfac- J 

* thy of more extended notice. Perhaps ^ory incubator, broo.h-r and the neces- * 

* the most alluring of all our schemes ^^''^ ^'^''^ ^0 su.-cossfully operate them. ^ 
t are those built around "chickens." ^'^u must also briny your own judg- 4, 
J There are many angles in this game. ni<5"t ^^ bear in this, as ^vell as all ♦ 

* Here an.l there, scattere.l all over other lines of Avori<; you must learn ♦ 

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J living to a small fortune in Broilers. structions. Tlie next re.piisite is the ♦ 

* It is a profitable field. ^'^ilit>^ *« successfully market your |. 

t "Broilers" is one of the best avenues ^he natural outlet for broilers is » 

$ for .jui. k profits to be found in the ^^^ ^''S^ ^'^^i^'^ restaurants, hotels and J 

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The raising an.l marketing of Pi'O'luc-t to the best advantage. 



A "Broiler" is a chicken just past ^^^^ ^^»«* '^'^ ^''"''^ «"'^ ^^'Oi^^ "1' ^'^g" ♦ 

$ the first blush of earlv vouth; not old ^^^»i'' permanent .•ustomers. * 

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* old to be listed as a "chick." At this P'-ofitable thing than this "Broiler" * 
t stage thev are esteemed one of the "I'^u^t'-y if intelligently pushed— ond ^ 
i greatest and most expensive of high persisted in until it has assumed the J 

1 grade table luxuries. Jf you doubt Pi'oportions of a substantial and perma- * 

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4i of the l>etter class, order a "broiler" Start Slow. ♦ 

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* The price of "Broilers ranks with .^^^^^ .,^ ^,^^. beginning: go easy at * 

* the prices paid for "Quail on Toast" first and get a full, complete under- J 
4> and other expensive luxuries. standing of the "game" by degrees, jb 

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* and the chicdvs at a few weeks old structioiis as to its operation; experi- fj 
4> -liould Aveigh around one to two ment with it the first year; raise just ^ 
t l^ounds; thev are then "Broilers" and ^ *'.^"' broilers that year; study the ♦ 
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* high class trade. Jt mav be stated, ^-ustomers. P,y the secon.l year you * 
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1 jsfactorv. In fact, keep that " same ^p a chicken. Ilatchnig em out is 4. 

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that lunidieds upon hundreds of men, 
women and even boys and girls have 
found tlie broiler industry the golden 
key with which they have unlocked 
the box of "Plenty I" Any reason 
why you cannot? 

The enticing profits in this thing 
should form a sufficient incentive. 

The Profits. 

Limitless — unlimited! Limited only 
by the amount of energy and pains- 
talving effort you put into it. Take 
an incubator, as an illustration, of 500 
egg capacity; run it eight months, one 
hatch per month. This figures 4,000 
eggs, of which, conservatively estimat- 
ed, 0,000 should be hatched out and 
2, .500 of the chicks raised to broiler 
size. And the work can be attended to 
in spare time if you are otherwise 
employed! Carry it a little further 
and assume three incubators, each of 
.500 egg capacity; carry it further for- 
ward and assume a hot water mam- 
moth incubator with a cajiacity of a 



million eggs yearly! This is contin- 
gent, of course upon some years of 
stuily, growth and practical experi- 
ence. 

The business is most especially at- 
tractive to the salaried man who wishes 
to add to his income by some "side 
issue'' snap; to the wife at home who 
wishes to "help out" or make some 
extra "pin money." My word for it 
— this business, pursued as a " side 
issue ' ' will grow into a main issue if 
you nurse it along a bit. 

By rights, in starting this liusiness 
you should have a flock of hens to 
provide you with the eggs for hatch- 
ing at a minimum of cost. However, 
the thing pays even if you buy all 
the eggs. 

I will add, in closing, that the broiler 
business apj^lies as well to ducks as 
to chickens, in fact, I may say that 
ducks are even more profitable. 

On the succeeding pages we are giv- 
ing you minute instructions as to the 
things you should know in order to 
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This jii'ojiositioii is not half as nivs- 
terious as its name would indicate. Jt 
is the name given it l)y the U. S. De- 
partment of AgiicHiltuic. Being fur- 
ther explained it uncovers a new (to 
this country) type of cabbage; the de- 
partment announces that it can be suc- 
cessfully grown in this country and 
that it gives promise of unusual merit 
for late jdanting because of its rapid 
growth. 

This caltl>age is a no\e]ty; it came 
from China; it weighs, after trimming 
for the marl\et, 6 to 8 pounds. It's 
one to two feet long, mostly crisp, 
white stem and but little leaf. 

What I Propose to Do. 

The information as to this novel 
product is sent out by the department. 
You do not need to buy this book in 
order to obtain these particulars. 
What I desire to do for you in the 
matter is to tell you about this new 
vegetable and suggest a way, orig- 
inal perhaps, with me, for creating a 
market for it and making money with 
it. 

The raising and exploiting of a new 
and novel kind of food has in it the 
element of a mono]ioly; the creation 
of a business vvhi( h can be carried 
on without the extreme of low j)rices 
due to the comiietition of thousands 
of others, all working the thing. The 
trucker, the fruit grower, the poul- 
tryman — all are subject to over-pro- 
duction and lowered prices. Raise and 
sell something that no one else has 
got or is likely to hav(\ and you can 
maintain the price. 

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Here is a novelty, and while I thinl\ 
a money-making market can be easily 
created for it — there is no market 
now. I am going to suggest the riglit 
way to create this market, but first 
wish to describe this novelty further 
as given in the Department Bulletin: 

"This cabbage is said to be the 
main staple of the diet of the people 
in portions of the north of China dur- 
ing the winter. The people of that 
district are physically very strong and 
healthy. 

"The peoi)Ie in China plant this cab- 
bage thinly; it is planted in rows, 
then the weak plants are pulled up, 
or else it is scattered over a space, 
being transplanted when of sufficient 
size. This latter method is said to 
yield the best plants. 

"* * * The plants must be manured 
heavily when 8 or 10 inches high — 
not sooner, or they will burn, and not 
later, or they will not mature before cob; 
weather. The leaves should be tied 
up when they are pretty well grown 
so that the long, loose leaves will not 
fall away from the center and become 
frost bitten. The cabbage needs a 
good deal of room. The plants should 
be placed not less than 2 feet apart in 
rows at least 3 feet apart. Further 
informajion as to cultivation also seeds 
can be obtained from the office of 
foreign seed and plant introduction, 
r. S. Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. " 

Adapting the Idea. 

The above constitutes the informa- 
tion given in the Department Bulletin. 

In taking hold of this novelty much 
still remains to be considered. Chief 
among tliese things is the question of 
a nmrket, which still remains to bo 
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Eemeniber, that in this country this 
article is alisolutely new. While it 
will probably l)e easy enough to get 
customers started for it, you wall have 
to tell them about it in the beginning. 

I would advise about as follows: 

The first year I would try it out on 
a small scale; experiment with it; see 
^ how it takes to your particular soil; 
T see how vou like it vourself; let the 



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these cabbages will make 
lot of slaw; an acre of them — an un- 
limited amount. 

I would go after the grocers person- 
ally in my nearest city. 1 would get 
them interested. 1 would <leliver 
either slaw or cabbage to them in 
small quantities on consignment, furn- 
ishing eacli one of them an attractive 



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Evidence in the case goes to show 
that this cabbage is superior to our 
native cabbage; if you find this to be 
the case it is up to you to work on 
that l>asis; to create a local market 
that will be a monopoly and a good 
income. 

To get the housewives of your near- 
by cities interested I would suggest, 
after you are well started and i-aising 
a lot of it, that you run an ad. now 
and then in a paper in these cities 
and get some peojjle interested in giv- 
ing it a trial. Something like this: 



SOMETHING NEW TO 


EAT. 


"Erassica Pekinensis"— 


-the new 


Cabbage Slaw; a distinct. 


delicious 


and healthful eating novelty; abso- | 


lutely new to this count 


■y. One 


trial will convince you. 




One quart, 40 cents; 


pint, 25 


cents, by jiarcels post. 





The foreign name given won't hurt 
things any; it should excite curiosity 
and bring orders. And, if they like 
it, many should become regular cus- 
tomers anil bring in their friends. 

This plan involves the making of 
your cabbage into "slaw." Any one 

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would put up very small samples of 
this "Brassica 
some hundreds — late 
thousands — and give them judiciously 
away where they would do the most 
good. I would even build up a route 
with it in this way — a "slaw route.'' 
A thousand customers, either mail or 
local, means a goo<l living. 

To arrive at this maximum result 
means experiment and work at first; 
Avhat business can you get into that 
does not require work and patience to 
acquire success? 

It seems to me worthy the effort; 
here you have a positive monopoly; 
you will have no competition for years, 
perhaps never. This fact makes it a 
\ery promising business proposition. 



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1 wiish, ill this rlmjitor, to leac-li the 
ear of the widowed, the helpless ones, 
the aged who are crowded out from 
the ranks of paid labor because of 
age or physical iiifirniities — all those 
who have not lost the right to li\e 
ill losing the aliility to do hard work — 
this is the class I most particularly 
desire to reach with this chapter. To 
all such 1 say: Here is something that 
will make you ali the way from a good 
living to a liank account, if you are 
willing to ilo your ]);ut. 

I have reference to keeping of In- 
iliaii Eunner Ducks for their eggs. 



1 lia\e spoken of this matter before 
in books and in newspaper articles, but 
the suli.ject is so important, so large,' 
and \ am constantly finding out so 
niui-h tliat is new in connection that 
4. J Avish yon to listen to me once more. 
Consider this (diajdei' a continuation 
of my avti(de barely tinichiiig the sub- 
ject in "Bacd^ Lot ycdiemes. " 



Not enough of my people took this 
scheme on page 28 of above mentioned 
book seriously. They did not seem to 
realiz.e that "Indian Kuniier Ducks" 
were the connecting linl^ liotween hard 
times and pi'os]ierity. That is. for the 
right man or woman. 

"Iiiilian Kuiiiicr Ducks" are egg ma- 
chines. 1'hey will lay moie ('gi;s in a 
tiiven time than anv (itlier fowl in ex- 



istence. Tliev are subiect to no <lis- 4> 
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For the man or woman with a few 
acres — 5 or Ki — ^there is no surer way 
to a good living and a bank account 
than with these ducks. "Eunners, " 
the real thing, are making wonderful 
records. Under favoralile conditions 
they have a record for over .".dO eggs 
per year. Out on the farms, with but 
indifferent care, they are laying an 
average of 22o eggs per year each. On 
five acres a flock of 500 can be kept. 
Selling these eggs at even market 

prices this Hock can easily produce an 
income, gross, of over :f2,000.00 per 
year. Keeping fancy stock and sell- 
ing the eggs and stock as breeders, ♦ 
this income can be tripled. Pretty big <( 
figures for five acres of land, but any I 
person who knows Indian Eunner T 
Ducks will substantiate what I am ♦ 
saving. ♦ 

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worth from 4 to S cents per dozen over 
hens' eggs. A housewife, having once 
used them, will use them forever — if 
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Getting down to our ''back yard" 
city lot idea again and adapting it 
to Kunner Dind^s — theie is spare time 
money e\en here. The individual who 
will study methods can add a whole 
kt to his income with PiUiiners — even 
en a s])ot of ground no larger than a 
city lot. If in doubt as to th.is. write 
for prices in ]iure blood sto(d; .and see 
\\hat vcu will iiav for a "trio"' of 
them or a setting of eggs. Ten dob ^ 
lars for 2 ducks :ind a drake; five dob 4| 
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^ "The "back lotter" who wishes to 

<* keep Runners for profit shouhl go in 

J for pure bred stock; jjay the price and 

<gi get the verv best. 
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5 pure bred white Runner eggs for in- 

* eubating is greater than the supply. 
2| With Runner Duclcs the incubating 
<t ?;eason can last for 6 months, as many 

♦ breeders keep hatching them all sum- 
^ mer. That is where they differ from 
4» hens again. For Indian Runners there 
T is practically a year 'round demand 
4i for breeding stock and eggs. 

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2 ter" stands. Learning first the game 

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money will buy. Get a small incuba- J 

tor. Study the incubator and be sure 41 

that you understand it, then start in- * 

cubating your eggs. With this start ^ 

you can, Avith reasonable care and luck, * 

have a larger colony the second year. T 

i-'y the third year you will have the * 

"knoAV how,'' tlie experience and the ^I 

full sized i]ovk. * 

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to care for; they are much easier to 



* than this could be kept. 
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* lay, in the six months, six or seven 
1^ thousand eggs. This is very conserv- 

* ative and below their average when 
'f properly handled. This means 500 set- 
^ tings. If you have spared no expense 
"I* in getting the purest and best stock, 
4! there is no necessity for selling these 

* eggs for less than two dollars per set- 
"f ting. This indicates a good sized ad- 

* dition to the family income, after de- 

* ducting the expenses for feed, adver- 
2| tising, etc. It figures out at least 

* +700 net. In addition there are 4 
J months more of service from them to 
•!• be considered. During the "off" part 

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* demand for hatching the market will 

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4s for pure bred stock. Am I over opti- 

* mistic in saying that $1,000 yearly, 
4. net, can be made on a city lot with 

* Indian Runner Ducks? 
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4> either. You must start slowly and 

* learn the best ways as you progress 
^ or you will fail. This rule applies to 

* everything in life, so far as that is 
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Wheat bran, ?, measures. 
Corn meal, 1 measure. 
Bone meal, 3 per cent. 
Beef scrap, 3 per cent. 
Sand, 3 per cent. 



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many jioints to learu at that. Learn J 

it all; get Indian Runner literature; 4t 

read it^stmlv it. ♦ 

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ers on the raising of the <lucklings. T 
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be kept on a city lot. I presume more liours, then give them a drink of warm ♦ 



water; then feed them stale bread 4. 

crumbs, moistened with sweet milk; + 

sprinkle a little fine sand over the T 

moistened bread crumbs. Feed them * 

thus every two hours for the first three * 

days. During the next three days feed 4i 

every three hours. After one week * 

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all times all uneaten food. After the •I' 

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ture which it will pay you to study. If J 
you do not know where to find them, I 4. 
will send you the address upon re- * 
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it: The widow, the helpless, those * 

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the "white lights" a hard one — get * 

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It's leased on eggs and a way to sell 
til em at a price that makes every old 
hen earn her l)oard — and yours, too. 

The Parcel Post has made possilde 
this way of doing business. 

The whole pi'inciple is built around 
the following facts: 

In every city there are well to do 
people who are willing to pay any sum 
re((uired in order to get just what they 
want. There are times when the thing 
they desire most of all — and which 
they cannot get — is a few fresh eggs 
right from the nest. These cannot be 
secured in their city at any price. The 
eggs which are offered them by their 
dealers are all the way from two weeks 
to six months old. What are they go- 
ing to do? 

There comes a time in the history of 
eveiy family when they must have 
genuinely fresh eggs because the doc- 
tor has ordered them as a diet for 
some invalid or convalescent mendjer 
of the family. 

"Give her a perfectly fresh egg 
boiled soft, twice daily; break a per- 
fectly fresh egg in a glass of milk and 
let her drink it every day. This is 
what the head of every family is uji 
against very frequently. Where is he 
going to get siudi eggs? 

He has the pi-ice — regardless of what 
it is — l»ut it does him no good; he 
simply cannot find that kind of eggs! 

A briidit young woman in ] Illinois 
sized thi.- situation up recently, about 
as I have sized it up for you; she 
started something! 

The first the general public knew of 
this enterprise was when an ad. some- 
thing like this ajtpeared in a Sunday 
paper in an adjacent city: 



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nest. Eggs to you via parcel post 
tonight that were laid tocTay! Our 
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delivered only a few hours from 
the time they were laid. We cater 
to those desiring such eggs for in- 
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She sells her eggs to this select tradi 
at 25 cents a piece, but not direct 
from the ad., because she cannot tell 
enough of tne stoiy therein to con- 
vince them that her eggs are worth 
that much. 

The general public has been duped 
so many times in eggs that every one 
is "from Missouri" when it comes to 
"strictly fresh eggs" — so-'-alled. 

She solicits correspondence — and gets 
it. When she receives a letter in le- 
sponse to her a<lvertisement, she sends 
out a personally written letter of 
which the following serves as a sam- 
ple: 

Dear Mrs. Jones: — 

Your valued inquiry received. In 
reply thereto I will say that the egg- 
1 fui'uish are furnished strictly on 
honoi'. Every time 1 send out an ordei- 
of them 1 assume that they may be 
inten<led for an in\;tli<l — ;uid it would 
be a mean person wlio would <lofraUil 
a sick person. 

I ship eggs by parcel post, and th(^ 
eggs thus shipped are i>ut just laid. 
For instance, if your order is receivecl 
today it will be filled today — and the 
eggs will have been laid today. You 
will get them only a few hours from 
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* ao-e. space; 200 of them can be ke^it in a ^ 

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4, ing declaration is made: ♦ 

% "I herebv solmnlv declare that ^^ .^•»" ''^''^ '" ^'^*? suburbs of a city 4; 

t the eggs in this shipment were laid the o'' i" ^^^^^ '•^""try and do not care to * 

* same dav thev were shipped." Anv ^'O^her with the keeping of the hens * 

* uotarv will help vou out in this and .vonrself, let some one else do the work * 
I you can nave duplicates printe.l in anv ='»'^ y^"-' ''^'^M' th"? heneM. In other j 

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* It requires some hard "plugging" ,^;,,^ ^-,. ,-„i,..,„,,e j,er dozen over the * 
I at the start to work up such a trade as ,,,^,.1-^^ p,.i,.p for the eggs delivered to $ 
4. this— but it will .-ome if you presevere. ^.^^^ ^^^^ ^.,„„, ,|_.,^. ^j_^p^: ^^.^^.^ i„i,i_ j^e t 
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4! to buy every particle of fod consumed idea over to suit yourself 

I by your fowls an,l still make enor- ,p,,.^ i^^,,,^ p^. ^ ^^^.^^.^^ affidavit with | 

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tell all their friends — and thus it will they were laid and ilon't permit of any 



* — even if they have nothing more than T consider this ]i!an a sure winner; if 

* a back vard or a citv lot, because, sell- necessary, vou can make such varia- _ 
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How Mr. Blocky Found Success and ? 
a Bank Account in the Open 



"Some men find succos-; — and others 
ha\-e it thrust upon them.'" Mr. Blocky 
had Ills ultimate success forced upon 
him to some extent. 

T"p to ■' years a.^o Mv. B!o(dvy did not 
know enou<:h altout jjoultry to distin- 
guish l>et\veen a White Leghorn co(d<- 
erel and a Plymouth Rocl^ mule! To- 
day Air. Blocky l<nows the difference 
all right — but it's gi^ese that has 
brought him fame and fortune. 

Air. B. worked in the city as freight 
handler for the Northwestern until, 
one lucky (I say "lucky" advisedly) 
day he get i nthe way of a ear being 
"shunted'' to a side track and lost a 
leg. Alost jjeople would consider this 
a calamity — but right here was where 
his good luck started; he will tell you 
so himself. This is where he had his 
fortune thrust upon him! If he had not 
accidentally lost his limb he would 
still be rustling on the Northwestern 
at !)^.5.5 per month; as it is he has a cork 
leg almost as good as the original and 
an income of •+-!:, (100 yearly. 

It wasn't all done in a minute. 
When Air. Blocky parted with that 
limb he thought he had reached the end 
of the road. 

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taught him differently. The Lord's 
blessing on these faithful wives who 
jump into the breach when evei'ything 
goes ilead wrong! 

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try finally — on a little farm — a cheap 
little thing- of only five acres. "Hens" 
was what occurred to her — but that 
was l)efore she learned about geese. 

Crradually health and courage return- 
ed to Bloid\y and once more he began 
to live. 

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poultry the fii'st sunniu>r; acci<lentally 
they got hold of 6 goose eggs that first 
summer and set tiiem under a hen; 4 
goslings raised to maturity the first 
year and sold for o\'er ^7 got tliem all 
worked u])! They went into geese. 

They set 200 geese eggs the second 
summer; lesult — 98 geese for market at 






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Thanksgiving at nearly two dnlla'--^ 
each! They did not spend much nujiiey 
for equipment; not much is needed for 
plebiau geese. Ihey took big dry 
goods boxes, piano boxes, barrels and 
what not to furnish the little shelter 
they demanded. They fenced ctt" 4 
acres of the fixe for a gose pasture 
and the geese "were happv all the 
day." 

This was three years ago; today Air. 
Elocky wouldn't trade his little 
"stunt" in the country and his cork 
leg for his original limb back in place 
and 100 shares of Northwestern ;.iturk 
thrown in for gooil measure. 

This sketch is no "castle in the Kir." 
Any man — any woman can do as v.el! — 
if they but think they can. A fo.v 
acres of ground; a little experiment — 
a little study; a little patience — a little 
nerve ami hustle, and — presto — there 
you are. 

I believe that geese can be raise^l 
and brouglit into condition for the 
market cheaper than any other feati,- 
erey money-maker extant — with the ex- 
cejition i)erhaps of du(dvs. 

Pasture for theirs all summer ani 
not much else re(juire<l; three or four 
weeks of heavy feeding just before 
marketing and the trick is turned! Try 
this on your piano! 

Pro^jerly speaking geese is not a 
"back lot'' idea. They need a range — 
a pasture. Here, however, is the right 
])lace to give you a ti[i: Geese will 
thri\-e on a range good for not much 
of anything else. If you live out in 
the open, on the edge of the country, 
even though you own no land, you can 
usually, by looking al>out you, find a 
few acres of ground good for notiiing 
else, j)erhaps than for a goose pasture. 
Swampy, weed-covered ground which 
can be rented for a song. A few acres 
of such ground for a pasture, iinjiroved 
a bit now and then, would furnish 
plenty of geese facilities. Grow into it 
gradually; little by little acquire the 
stai't. When your tloidc reaches goo'^ 
])r()portions employ the "stufling" 
method and wax i)ros|)erous. 

On another page I have told you how 
to operate the "stuflfing" plan. 



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Coining and Novel Side Issues 



Five acres is quite a lot of land — ■ 
looking at it one way. Bi:^ ilairv and 
general farmers wouldn't call it even 
a garden pati-h, but let nie tell you that 
the right kind of a S(diemer and hustler 
will c-onie (dose, sometimes, to the (dear- 
ing annually of as nnudi clear profit 
on five acres of ground as many a big 
farmer does on 160 acres. It's all in 
the way you go at it. 

One illustration comes to my mind 
here: A retired minister in an eastern 
state is farming on a large scale in 
small compass; his farm consists of 15 
acres; on that 15 acres he is keeping 
15 cows — and raising everything they 
eat! The average farmer thinks he 
must have at least SO acres to keep 
that number of cows and many a dairy 
farm of 160 acres cannot support that 
many. 

What is the secret.' "Intensive" 
methods — that's it! Silo, alfalfa, land 
brought to the highest degree of pro- 
duction and every inch utilize<l — this 
is the explanation. 

Five acres — that's still less — but per- 
mit me to say that the right man on 
FIVE ACRES will find there a living, 
a bank account, freedom from wor- 
j-y — and last, but not least — robust 
health. He will find on that five acres 
a pleasure in life whi(di he never knew 
before; he will live twenty years long- 
er than he could hope to in the city 
and every year will add new blessings 
to his existence! 1 am talking now of 
the EIGHT man you know. And I will 
say in passing that this ajiplies to the 
right WOMAN as well. 

What One Man Did. 

Five acres did not seem much to this 
man when he took it in trade, because 



he was then a prosperous business man; 
reverses came — and THEN that five 
acres looked worth while because it 
was all his creditors left him. He 
moved to it and started, for the first 
time, to live as the Lord intended HIM 
— and YOU and I to live — close to na- 
ture's heart. He was inexperienced — 
and "soft'' from half a lifetime spent 
in liis hot house of an office in the 
great city. 

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into jiarticulars concerning the first two 
years, "least said soonest mended." 

Experience came; experiment and 
study brought results. Today he is 
clearing as good a living from that five 
acres of land as many a business man 
in the city is clearing from his invest- 
ment of fifty thousand dollars. 

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Poultry first. He does not go in for 
fine feathers; a nen who wishes to 
board with HIM has got to lay eggs! 

On that five acres he keeps 500 lay- 
ing hens; he raises most of the food to 
sujiport them. He has found out the 
l)roi)er way to treat them and make 
them pay. He will not keep a hen on 
the place which lays less than 140 eggs 
per season. His annual crop of eggs 
averages around 65,000. He has a select 
city trade and sells every egg at a good 
price. 

Very raielv does he keep a hen more 
than one year. Every fall a new gen- 
eration of pullets replaces the old hens 
which go to the markets. He keeps his 
stock moving — new blood replacing the 
old; he works the "age limit" just as 
faithfully with his hens as he did with 
his employees when he was an em- 
ployer in the city. And it doesn't hurt 
the hens as it did his city workers 
whom he jtlaced on the shelf to dry 
when they reached the age of 45! 

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BEES! It don't draw very hard on 
the farm to keep 50 swarms of bees. 
For the most part they board with tlie 
neighbors — and bring home the juofits 
to their owner they have innocently 
stolen from Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones. 
And ;10 swarms of bees ad many dol- 
lars to his profits. 

SQUABS! He is a squab fancier; he 
turns into the market every year a lot 
of fat ones worth almost as much as 
quail on toast. This adds many dol- 
lars to his bank account. 

HARES! Contrary to the belief in 
some (juarters, thei-e is money in them. 
He raises a lot of them — the Belgian 
variety — and they help a lot. 

BI'CKS! He is not in the duck 
game heavily but it is his most profit- 
able si<le issue. He keeps the "Indian 
Runner'' variety, the pure bred stock. 
Every egg he has to spare in season is 
contracted for in advance at $1.50 per 
setting. He has about 50 working for 
him and they add dollars and dollars to 
liis income. 

GEEISE! He is not a ''plunger'' in 
geese, but manages to turn off ;!() or 40 
around Thanksgiving when they are 
Avorth nearly two dollars a ]>iece. 
"Every little l)it added to what he al- 
ready has, makes just a little bit 
more. ' ' 

PIGS! He keeps just one brood 
sow; she usually presents him with 
about S or 10 in A])ril. A cou]>le of 
them go into the family pork bai'rel in 
December; the remainder are sold when 
(i weeks old. They are pure bloods and 
he gets a price. 

WHITE RATS AND GUINEA PIGS! 
This issue belongs to the good wife and 
slie gets a lot of ''pin money'' from it. 
It helps and does not draw much from 
the little farm. These little bijieds are 
very interesting and always in <lpmand 
for pets. They multiply like red ants. 
One p)air of white rats, bred today will 
sit down to breakfast with their great- 
greatgrandchildren 8 months later! 

FRT'IT! Cherries, jiears, strawber- 
ries, raspberries and blacivbei'i'ies. 
Tucked in here and there, where they 
take the least room — and tliev ilo 
THEIR sliare. 

MT\SHROO.MS! He isn't satisfied 
vet; he feels there ar(^ nianv thini's 



moi'e he c:iii add to bis /.oological col- 
lection of incdine makers and lie is now 
engag(>(i in odd iiuuiicnts in building a 
biii' mushroom cellar. 



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for ''makino' uood ' " witli 



His system 
ill his vari- 



ous kinds of mai-ket pi-oduce is very 
simple. He has worked into the pos- 
session of an automoliilc and dtdivers 
his stuff from house to house all oNcr 
his neighboring city. 

His fii'st \-enture was eggs — fi'esh 
eggs I'ight from the nest. He worked uji 
a big line of customers who bought his 
strictly fresh kind at better prices. 
They like<l his eggs and they began to 
ask him: "What else have you got?'' 
This first set him to thinking. Today 
he sell salmost everything he can raise 
to his regular egg customers — even to 
a few quarts daily of rich milk from 
his pure bred Jersey cow — and liis sur- 
]dus garden ^-egetables — wliich latter 
two items form two assets not j)revi- 
ously mentioned. 

Po you think this man is nmking a 
living? 1)0 you see a lesson here for 
YOU, Mr. city bound, dissatisfied man? 

Last month T mentioned receiving a 
letter from a man — an old man, asking: 
"Can I make a living on 7 acres of 
ground — and how?'' I'm going to mail 
him a cojiy of this l)0ok, personally, my- 
self — and it will be my answer. 

* * " You cannot do it all in a 
minute, nor the first yeai'. You must 
grow into it by degrees; inch by inch 
you must feel your way; you must 
cieep l>efore you can walk; you must 
fight the battle; you must study and 
experiment; i>atience and work must be 
your lot at the fiist. If you are sat- 
isfied to do this — just so sui-ely as water 
runs down hill you will e\entually 
l;)reak the sluuddes that now bind you 
to drudgery and iiard times and get 
out into the sunshine of prosj)erity and 
right li\'ing. 

Before idosing this fi\-e-acre farm 
story I wish to say one thing more: 
There is oni' siile issue, the greatest and 
biggest of all, whicli this nmn seems to 
have overlcM.Ked, and 1 am going to 
t(dl you of it in th(> next chapter. 

It is worthy of one ]iage by itself, 
l>ecause it is as sure and certain an 
income bringei' as there is on this earth 
— for the man or the woman who means 
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T toiicherl lightly on this plan in 
'•Back Lot Schemes," but I am load- 
el to the upper deck with new facts 
i-oin-erning it and must tell you more 
all out it. 

I have reference to the home canning 

iiulustry. 

Be not misled; don't let any one 
sidetrack you. Herein lies as sure a 
I'iving as there is on this green earth, 
and the plan is very simple, very easy. 

It offers a haven of safety for any 
woman who is thrown upon her own re- 
:i*)Uives, Any man who has passed the 
age limit and finds existence a prob- 
lem in the city, or any man and wife 
who wish to get out among tne birds 
mid flowers and make a living in the 
>mishine. 

This industry is good for all the way 
f; om a living to much more, according 
to yoiir own energy and the amount of 
I;nid yon have. 

On a piece of ground the size of a 
■ity lot — ^spare time cash; on five or 
ten acres — much more than a good liv- 
ing. 

] would not lie to her. My own wife 
1 woulr not lie to her. My own wife 
may be a widow some time, for all I 
know; therefore, in reply to a woman 
left alone, with a family of children 
to support, who wrote me saying, 
"What can a woman do thus left 
Tilone, " 1 made the following answer: 
■"Get out into the open. Buy or rent 
' acres of land; 200 Indian Eunner 
ducks and a home canning outfit will 
make you j^rosjierous. ' ' 

Technically, in speaking of this mat- 
ter. I am telling you nothing new. 
■'Home canners" are not my inven- 
tion. You have probably heard of 
til em before. BUT — if, in writing thus 



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over and investigate it, then this one 
]iage of this book is worth to you one 
hundred dollars! It is worth more than 
that simply to file it away and keep 
the idea as a refuge for your old age, 
or, against the time when other things 
go wrong. 

My main i<lea in again calling your 
attention to this plan is to tell you 
this: I am not selling you home can- 
ning outfits. 1 am not "plugging" for 
any one who has them for sale. I 
simply wish to give my people all the 
help I can, and therefore say: If this 
interests you, write me, enclosing a 
self-addressed, stamped envelope, and I 
will tell you where to get the i)roper 
outfit. 

For ^20 you can get an outfit with 
which you can put up 1,000 cans per 
day. Half that capacity for much less 
money. Full instructions and secret 
])rocesses come with every outfit. 

The whole thing is so simple that 
even the lioys and girls can do the 
work. 

Don't let ''old fogies" mislead you; 
do not let any one influence you by 
saying, ''You can't compete with those 
mammoth canneries.'' Piffle! LIS- 
TEN — Go out and buy a can of 
"store" tomatoes, corn, peas, beans, 
et al., what will you pay? 15 to 25 
cents for the better grade. Once in a 
while at a ''fire sale" you can get the 
]ioorost grnde for 10 cents. Now listen 
again! With your home canner you 
can put up vegetables, fruit, what not, 
for 4 cents per can! This includes can, 
label and all. 

And this lirmie-made stuff is good to 
sell fit 25 cents when the factory stuff 
is selling at 10 cents! 

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Mrs. Mickie McFadden and Her 
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feathers. Nearly all the big, spectac- 
nlar sucf-ess with ])Oultry in the past 
have been nia.le that wav. And, nearly 
all the RKAL big, sj.ec'tacnlar FAIL- 
ITREy have also been made via that 
route. 

When a poultry fancier who is 
breeding faney stock for the j.oultry 
shows makes a big killing, the general 
jiublic hears of it sooner or later. 
AVhen a man of poultry science breeds 
and nurtures a hen that lays ;U).l eggs 
in one year, the news is flashed from 
Elaine to Bersheba. When we read of 
a man who netted " $:i,mOA)() in one 
year from ."{0 hens" it must have been 
fine feathers that did it— if it was 
ever done at all. 

But we seldom hear of the minor 
successes of the rank and file of those 
who are making all the way from a 
good living to something better with 
"just hens" — in other words "Util- 
ity" stock. They have gone quietlv 
out into the open — clerks, old men past 
the age limit, widows, semi-invalids, 
superannuated humans, derelicts, drift- 
wood — and found there ])eace, health, 
content and a comfortable living via 
"Ftility" stock, known to them sim- 
ply as "heni*. " This (dass knows 
nothing of show birds and "points" 
of a "show pullet:" all they know is 
that their "hens" are making them 
a li\-ing. 

* * " There was Mickey ^McFadden. 
Now ;Mickey was a fine lad; he onlv 
had one fault. From 8 o'clock ]\ron- 
day iiiorniniT until H o'clock Satur- 
dav ni"ht ^[ickev refused to draw a 
b'cntli. The saloons all (dosed 
p. 111. (Ill Saturday, aiid fnini then 
^ruiiday nioi-niiig ^^i(d\e^• was a 
citizen and a cr(>ilit to his town, 
lay being the (ine dav iif the 
on which :\rrs. ?»Ii(dxey :\IcFad- 
dii 't wash, she had tiiii(> on that 
day to round Mickey up, inaniciire him 
a bit and trot him off to (diundi. And, 
on that one day of the week :\[i(d<ey 
was a fine lad. 

''' On a Wednesday moi-ning, 
^li's. ^kTcFadden was hanging out her 
daily Avash. "Faith," (pioth her 
neighbor, Mrs. ^Fulcahy, as they gos- 
siped over the fence, "an" have vez 



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what is it?" queried Mr; 
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McFadden. 

Mrs. Flynn 

1 her little 



lifetime 
l)ought 
cottage 



farrum in Joway that she is afther 
gettin' r-ri(di with hins. ]t's 'Ho 
Dilan Rids,' or some sich thing, an' 
she's on 'asy street, so she ses. " 

This was all, but the iron sank deep 
into Mrs. Mickey McFadden 's soul. 
That night a vision came to her. A 
vision of green fields, of fruit, flow- 
ers and the songs of the birds. A 
vision of a big flock of red hens at 
the back door and a fat j.ig in its 
stye; of Mickey sober, industrious, far 
removed from the corner groggerv. A 
vision of peace and content. 

' * " Mickey demurred. Jt seemed 
too far from the base of supplies; too 
distantly removed from the life sav- 
ing station; but Mrs. Mickev carried 
the day. She usually did. 

With the savings of half a 
of wash days Mrs. McFadden 
a few acres of ground with a 
and hen coop on it. She removed her 
humble belongings, including Mickey, 
to the distant home. With the bal- 
ance of her money she ]iur(diased a 
flock of "hins." 

The first year they all but starved. 
Mickey would not have minded had it 
not been for the beerless drouth. 

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learned the way of hens; gradually 
Mickey got used again to the taste of 
water — and then he helped. 

These people never had rmu h in life. 
They never expected iiunh. In the 
city they had known nothin.g more 
than deprivation. A little had alwavs 
seemed a lot with them. Thus, when 
the tiiii(> came that tli(> renovated 
Mi(d<ey and his good wife arrived at 
the dignity of owning :?()() laying hens, 
■with prospects unlimited for the fu- 
ture, they felt that they were revel- 
ing ill fabulous wealth.' Today they 
are jirosjierous and hapjiv. I'tilitv 
"h'ns"— that's all. 

We seldo)n see in jirint the r(>cord 
of little BIG successes like this. There 
are thousands and thousands of them 
all over this land. T'lenty of failures 
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planted in their soul, seldom fail of 
e^•entnaI victory when they adopt the 
Utility hen as a heijjmeet. 

It's a business man's game, too. 
While thousands upon thousands of 
those like Mrs. Mickey McFadden have 
found in the Utility hen a life saver, 
it has remained for the business man, 
the student, the thinker, to get the 
most out of it. 

There was the Rev. James Barstow, 
as a contrast to our estimable and in 
every way worthy friend, Mrs. Mc- 
Fadden. He was a superannuated 
minister. He reached the age limit. 
His sermons no longer had the ginger 
in them. He was getting too old- 
fashioned and he was "kicked out" 
in that kind, loving way so peculiar 
to some religious organizations. It 
looked like starvation for his, but he 
fooled 'em. 

The fact that he had been a parson 
all his life didn't seem to militate 
against the fact that he had in him 
the instincts of a business man. To- 
day, from an humble start, he is put- 
ting money in the bank. Utility hens 
again. Brains and business instincts 
have not hurt his business any, either. 

Speaking of Utility hens reminds 
me of onions. Plant onions between 
the rows of hens. I would not have 
mentioned this had it not been for the 
experience of the minister above 
spoken of. He made a notable success 
of Utility poultry, and then reached 
out for more worlds to conquer. He 



selected onions. His brains again saw 
him through. Noted men of letters 
always have traced a connection be- 
tween brains and onions. 

Mr. Barstow 's experience with on- 
ions is worth relating because it pre- 
sents an alluring possibility as a side 
issue for a poultryman, especially the 
beginner. 

His first venture in onions was on a 
little plot of ground hardly 40 feet 
square. This plot he richly manured 
and carefully prepared. He started 
the seed in a hot bed, transferring the 
plants later to the outside field. His 
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were nearly if^lOO.OO. In this same 
ratio one acre of onions would net 
over $2,500.00. And it can be done. 

"Fine feathers," i. e., birds for the 
poultry shows and the fancier rather 
than eggs and meat for the market, 
is all very well for he who has the 
time and capital for experimenting un- 
til he learns the game, but the begin- 
ner, the novice, usually needs to make 
some real money right at the begin- 
ning. He would best cling to the 
shore. "Utility" profits are good to 
have, and good enough for him. 

The man or woman who goes after jp 
eggs when the egg market demands ^ 
them at fancy prices as now, will sel- 2 
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a little bit of iron in their blood. The 4" 
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gry for poultry products — and, "what 4» 
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do! " 



A Scheme in ''Pullets" Worth Looking Into 



I also tou(died on this idea in " Baidv 
Lot Schemes.'' "Schemes in Dirt'' is 
intended as a secpiel to my former 
book. In it I am narrating later de- 
volo]inionts and further proof. 

Since writing " Bacdc Lot Schemes'' 
the following letter has reached me. 
It is self-explanatory and requii'es no 
comment: 
Benjamin Burdick. 

Dear Sir: — ^Perhaps a litt'e scheme 
T worked in iicultry last year may lie 
of interest to your readers — or at least 
to any ]>ortion of them situated as I 
am. 

I am a farm hand ;;ud a hard work- 
er. Last ]\Iar(di, just as the spriii:; 
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a)i accident, lireaking one of my arms. ^ 

This laid me out from hard work all * 

last spi'ing and summer. I did not * 

know how my family and myself were ^ 

going to live. I had about one hun- 4| 

dred dollars saved and after mature ^ 

(iclilieiation my wife and myself rent- 4» 

ed a small farm containing five acres T 

of ground, with a small house and a <^ 

large hen coop on it. We paid cash + 
rental for it. 

We took my savings of a hundred 
dcllais and spent every cent of it in 
HENS. 1 was able to get for this 
amount l-IO hens and pullets. 

I started feeding them for eggs and 
by the tenth of April we were getting 

"> to K) dozen eggs per day. I was T 

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with a large liotel or two at thirty 
cents per dozen for six months, on con- 
dition that 1 furnish them eggs not 
over 48 hours from the nest. 

I cleared that summer, from that 
flock of hens enough of y)rofit, over 
the cost of feed, to support us nicely. 
In the fall, as soon as they were 
through moulting 1 fattened them a 
bit and turned them into the market. 
The i;:2 (reduced from 140) hens 
brought me in .tSHi.dO — almost as much 
as I jiaid for them. Had I taken more 
care to get more pullets and less old 
hens when buvinp- them, and also 



Itought only the larger breeils, those 
]."i2 hens would have brought me much 
more than they cost me. I was altle 
to go back to work by the month that 
fall — but those "borrowed" hens wert- 
certainly a life saver to us in our 
emergency. 

Our friend was on the right track. 
He just missed an important discov- 
ery. Too bad he went back to work. 
Had he bought in tlie fall instead of 
s]iring and followed up liis advantage, 
learning the game as he progressed, 
he would never have returned to work. 



An Unique Goose Idea 



speaking of selling geese at nine 
dollars each by ''stutting'' them, and 
of renting a tract of so-called worth- 
less land for a song, brings another 
scheme to my mind in connection, and 
I am going to make mention of it. A 
few years ago a smart hustler con- 
ceived the idea that there was money 
in geese. He saw some of his neigh- 
bors hauling geese into the city and 
raking in the best part of two dollars 
for each one delivered. It set hinr 
to thinking; he thought he saw some- 
thing! Today that man is clearing 
$10,000 yearly in geese! He conceived 
a successful scheme and struck to it. 

Hatching goslings from the eggs and 
raising them is ])rofital)le Init slow; 
this schemer invented something swift- 
er. 

He found that in some parts of the 
Southern states geese, lean geese, fat 
geese in embryo, couhl be jiurchaseii 
for about 70 cents each. He discovered 
that he could take a lean goose, feed it 
heavily for three weeks and sell it as a 
fat goose for a good price. He went 
into the business of feeding geese. To- 
day he turns into the market over ten 
thousand geese annually! They cost 
him about 70 cents each; shipping ex- 
penses and three weeks of stuffing them 
adds a little more; he gets for them, in 
the open market, an average of $1.70 
each. 

This idea is not practical on a large 
scale for the average man with a small 
capital; it recjuires too much money, 
but it can be operated on a small scale 
and allowed to ex])and. 

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crat"' buggy can, by driving ai'ound 
the country and interviewing the farm- 
ers, pick up lean geese at a less price 
— say one dollar or less. These geese, 
fed for three weeks and sold during 
the holidays, will bring at least twice 
this sum, thus leaving a large nmrgin 
of profit. 

This scheme applies equally as well, 
so far as that is concerned, to anv and 
all kinds of poultry. Start small and 
let the thing grow. 

I will carry this thing further and 
describe to you a scheme that has in 
it the elements of unlimited possi1)ili- 
ties. 

Learn that "stuffing'' method fiill\-: 
jiractice it unti' you can do it success- 
fully. Others can do it — others ARE 
doing it; so can you. 

When you have the art down fine 
your ojiportunity has C07iiel 

Don't bother to go south to buy 
geese cheaper; don't l)other to sjiend 
a whole year in raising goslintrs and 
maturing them into p'eese. Siinply ac- 
quire a horse and "Democrat'' bu^ary 
and go after geese in your own locality. 

Do not woriv about the ]ii'ice you 
]iay, either. You can buy all the sur- 
jdus geese in your county, unfattened, 
at .$1.50 each. Take them in; carry 
them home; stuff them as jier my rule, 
and figure the profits. 

A few months hard work in the fall 
and early winter will make you a 
year's income. 

A lot of plain farmers over here in 
"Watertown, Wis., have mastered this 
science and are selling their geese for 
nine dollars a piece. You can learn 
to do things — and DO them — can't 
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Half An Acre And A Living 



Half an ai-re of Lirouiu!, jilaiiteil to 
corn or wlieat, would not make niueh 
of a .showiiif>' in the way of supporting 
a larsie family or securing a bank ac- 
count. Half an acre of ground, how- 
ever, manipulated as an old gentleman 
in Wisconsiia is numipulating it, is 
good for a good living and three to 
carry. 

Ojieiating on a l)ig scale with 20 
acres, his plan could well be classified, 
indexed and filed in the "Department 
of Amazing Opportunities." 

Eeeeiving a letter from this man 
the other day, he told me he was do- 
insi' well and making a good living, 
with no worriinent in his heart con- 
cerning his future. Three or four 
years ago he was, to my knowledge, 
facing the world at 65 years of age, 
with a heart filled with bitter uncer- 
tainty; the "county farm" seemed 
his only refuge. Today he is eomfort- 
al'iv situated with an income for life! 

Half an acre of ground did it — and 
T am going to explain his method. 

'^ * * One day about four years 
ao'o, when life seemed drear and dark, 
with no particular hope to cheer him, 
this old gentleman chanced to recall 
a memory of his youthful days. He 
recalled w^orking in a big office in a 
sky-scraper of a big city. He remem- 
bered how. one day, he received by 
mail, a little box which, on being 
rr)ened, revea-ed four biff, red apples! 
He recalled that he divided them up 
in hal\-es among his fellow clerks; 
how goo<l they tasted, rich, luscious, 
rit'ht from a friend in the fruit belt. 
They tasted different; thev were not 
"city broke;" they didn't have the 
city flavor. He remembered that he 
and his fellow clerks made up a pui'se 
and sent it to his friend in the coun- 
try, who responded by sending bv ex- 
press a whole Imshel of the delicious 
fruit. And — as this old man mused 
in the gloaming on how he and his 
friends luxuriated for a week on ripe, 
juicy apples, an idea soaked through 
his ])0or old tired, head and found a 
lodo'iig ]ikace in his b'-ain. 

- ^ * For weeks he h'lut'^'T ; mnnv 
weaT-">' miles he tra\-eled in his search 
foi' the prober ]>lace. He found it at 
last — a half acre of ground wdth a 
house on it — not too far removed from 
tlie ereat city. He made his arrange- 
ments; he got everything in readiness, 



planted a crop, then went to a man 
in the city wlio knew liow to write a 
letter. The old man told him his plan; 
told him to write — and this is about 
what the sci-ibe put ilown: 

"Dear Mr. . 

''1 am sending you by mail, under 
another coA'er, a sample of my ' Early 
Epsom ' white radishes. I want you 
to eat them; try them at my expense. 
If they taste different from those you 
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crisp, rich lia\'or which shows that 
they are ' right from the garden to 
you," order a box of them to take 
home once in a \vhile. For io cents I 
will ]iull u]) a box of them for you 
tonight, mail them and they will get 
to you tomorrow. You will be able 
to have them at dinner tomorrow 
night. A much larger box for 50 cents. 
On honor — right from the garden to 
your tal)le! ]Mouey back instantly if 
you are not delighted." 

From a mailing agency he semired 
the names of 1,000 clerical men, em- 
ployed in va.rious offices about the 
large city. He only aiined to secure 
one fi'om each office, thouivh in the 
case of a few large cor})oration offices 
he secured several. 

He sent the entire 1,000 letters to 
these 1,000 clerks and anxiously 
awaited developments. 

Each cflice man who received tliis 
letter received also a tiny package. 
l'nwi-aii)>ed, this package revealed a 
neat little pasteboard box. Carefully 
paclced therein he found three radishes 
— white, ci-is]i — reposing in a tiny l)ed 
of lettuce leaves. The whole thing 
looke<l fresh, temptine', good enoiigh 
to eat — and they met that fate. 

Orders did not come in A'ery rapidly 
at first. A few orders strayed in the 
first Aveels ; the second w^eek quite a 
lot of them. Along about this time 
lie ^vas gratified beyond • measure to 
get rejieat orders from those who had 
sent in theii' first orders the week lie- 
fore. In s(une cases he recei\"ed I'.alf 
a ilozeu orders from that number of 
clei'l<s in the same office. Along about 
the fouith week he had a good line 
of jiatrons who were sending him ord- 
ers quite regularly, and these custom- 
ers were, most of them, tellina: their 
friends about it apparently. At any 
rate he kept getting new orders fi'om 
new people. 



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Ilis line of regular imtroiis was rap- 
idly increasing, but his profits were 
as yet small, owing to expenses. Then, 
too, he realized that the appetite of 
his patrons for radishes would eventu- 
ally be appeased — then what? 

He answered the question the fol- 
lowing season by planting a little of 
everything on that half acre. Start- 
ing in with radishes in the spring, he 
followed up, to his large and constantly 
growing list of regular customers, with 
a list of a dozen different things, fresh 
— "right from the garden to you." 

They liked his radishes. They tried 
him on something else and it was all 
good — "on honor" — with a garden 
liavor minus the cold storage accent. 
They s})oke a good word for him to 
their friends; the friends invested and 
told someone else — and so it went. 

A'ot all in a moment, however. It 
took time and patience. This old 
man's initial start covered a period 
of two or three years. He eked out 
his living while waiting for his mail 
trade to grow, by the sale of eggs and 



surplus produce to local customers. It 
came finally — the established business 
—and today this old man can bid de- 
fiance to hard times and the "slings 
and the arrows of outrageous fortune." 
He is "fixed" for the remainder of 
his life — what there is of life still re- 
maining to him. 

Of course his case is an excejdional 
one. Half an acre— with the help of 
the Parcel Post — has sufficed for him, 
because his requirements are small. In 
the case of an averaged sized family, 
more ground would be necessary; but 
the "scheme" is there; the "Parcel 
Post is here — and, in another chapter 
I desire to give you soinething else 
built around this magnificent service. 

No hard and fast plan can be given 
in the operation of such plans as the 
one I have described above. I am 
sim))ly suggesting, simply describing 
an idea.' "Two heads are better than 
one." With what I have said to form 
a nucleus, I have no doubt but that 
variations and improvements will be 
worked out by others who will think 
of angles which have escaped me. 




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The widespread unrest that prevails 
today among the toilers in the great 
cities has culminated in the slogan, 
"Back to the Soil." The city toiler 
is willing — ^but uncertain. The ques- 
tion he raises is: "Can a city man, 
without farming or poultry experience, 
'make good' in the country?'' 

Since I have been in the "limelight" 
with my magazine articles and books 
this question has been fired at me 1,000 
times. 

And my answer is: It depends on 
the man!" The right man with the 
right kind of nerve and a little gray 
matter in his top-piece is dead safe. 
He can succeed; in fact, he will refuse 
to accept failure or defeat. Right here 
not a half mile from my own home is 
an illustrious example of what a city 
man can do — if he really tries. 

s * * Eight years ago Mr. J. S. 
Bartlett was one of the toilers of the 
great city of Chicago; presumably he 
was weary of the cold glare of the 
great arc lights; presumably he heard 
this slogan of "Forward to the Land! " 
Presumably be, himself, asked the 
question: "Can I, a city man, with 
no pi'evious experience, succeed in the 
farming districts?" 

* * * T do not know who answered 
this question for Mr. Bartlett. My 
knowledge of his affairs only takes in 
the fact that in eight years he has be- 
come one of the most scientific and 
successful "intensive" farmers in 
Southern Michigan. 

!Mr. Bartlett came here with only 
six months of previous farm experi- 
ence to his credit. He bought forty 
acres of land that was none too good; 
it ha<l been badly "run." He studied, 
he read, he experimented. He anal- 
yzed his soil; he found out what it re- 
quired and supiilied by the missing con- 
stituents. Little by little he laid the 
foundation for what is today one of 
the most successful small farms in this 
state. 

* * * It was my ])rivilege to go over 
this beautiful little farm with Mr. 
Bartlett not long ago and this is what 
I saw: 

Green fields of alfalfa, waving fields 



of corn — the most thrifty I have seen 
in Michigan; a herd of 15 pure-bred 
Jersey cows, quartered in sanitary 
barns: horses, hogs, a big flock of Leg- 
horn hens, an up-to-date creamery in 
miniature with all machinery and ap- 
pliances, a silo; in fact an up-to-the- 
minute farm, such as any man could 
well be proud of. And all of this ac- 
complished in eight years by a city 
bred man! When ^Iv. Bartlett came 
to Michigan he l>rought along his 
nerve, his business training and a big 
trunk full of moilern ideas. 

* * * They do say that when Mr. 
Bartlett started to utilize these mod- 
ern ideas some of his neighbors laugh- 
eil! They waited, expectantly, for the 
"green city man" to go "bump'' and 
move back to the city. 

* * * Inasmuch as 'Sir. B. is now tak- 
ing in sevei-al thousand dollars yearly 
in net results from his farm he is in 
no particular hurry. 

* * * This is what ONE city man 
has done! If theie were one million 
more like this jiarticu'ar one. the 
wealth of this nation would be doubled 
in fifteen years! 

^ * * Not every city man can ac- 
complish such results as has Mr. Bart- 
lett, BUT any city man or woman who 
is possessed of a normal amount of 
brains, nerve and patience can do 
things out in the open — believe me! 

This man 's farm is not over one mile 
from my home. What T am narrating 
here is only solemn truth. 

Lest, however, this may be a too op- 
timistic ](resentation of facts and mis- 
lead an "unfit" city man, T will add 
a few more words: Not every city 
man can do this well. Where one suc- 
ceeds, ten will fail, so far as a BTG 
success is concerned. 

I^nless the city man who "oes to the 
country goes there with his jaw set 
and the determination to outlive and 
outgrow all obstacles — to serve some 
years if necessary in doing it — he 
would better keep his city job. The 
right city man, or even woman can 
"make good" in the country, an<l they 
are doing it, but it's no snap. 

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A City Man's ''Easy Money" Hen Scheme 



Tlie following- lettei' illusti'iites 
lea, ]ierhni)s now, ]]ei-ha]is not; 



ill any event 
just this way 
ex])erience: 



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came to us. It 
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liviny- anil a hank account. 



Dear !Mr. Burdick: — The ])0ultry Inisi- 
ness was aliout the last thint^r j ever 
expecteil to take up as a means of live- 
lihood. I^ji to three or four years ago 
] knew al)out as much aliout poultry as 
J knew of i-aising sheep for their fur! 

1 was at that time living in the 
suburbs of Chicago on the west side. 
I had a good-sized lot with a roomy 
back yar<l and one day I fell heir to 
an old hen. J don't know where she 
came from or what prompted her to 
adopt us; j only know that one morn- 
ing when 1 went out for kindling wood 
she was roosting on a l)arrel in the 
woodshed. 1 allowed her to remain — 
not knowing what else to do. The fam- 
ily feil her on scraps and one day she 
laid an egg. A little later she laid 
another and it soon became a regular 
Those fresh eggs tasted 
to us; they didn't seem 
cold-storage lia^'or. 



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ater my ^^\fe remarked 
f one hen is a good thing 
why wouldn't six hens be still l)etter.' 
Our tal>le scraps would keep that 
numy. " No sooner said than done. I 
skirmished around, bought five more 
hens and a I'ooster. All that sjiring we 
luxuriated on strictly fresh eggs — and 
e\-cn sold an occasional dozen at a 
fancy price to our less fortunate neigh- 
bors who hadn't fallen heir to any 
hens like we had. 

"Jimmy," said my wife one day, 
"lots of people around here have table 
scraps, etc., l)ut no hens; why couldn't 
we keep a \ng Hock of hens by simjily 
arranging with neignbors to let us have 
all their table scraps, etc.?" 



As a starter 1 rented two ^■acant 
lots next to our luimble home, fenced 
them, erected a poultry house, bought 
anothei' bunch of hens with loosters 
to match, and we made the start. I 
circulated around among the neigh- 
bors and they cjieerfully agreed to 
throw all table scraps into a pail for 
me to remove each morning. These 
scraps filled the bill apparently, for 
ail my hens required, even to green 
food, as the scraps were always more 
or less mixed W'ith remnants of cab- 
bage and what not. 

Our chickens thrived wonderfully 
on this diet and we sold so many eggs 
that season that we became flushe<l 
with success and determined to go into 
the business on a largei' ami more sys- 
tematic scale. 

"We removed the following year to 
a five-acre farm just outside the limits 
of a thriving little city in Indiana, and 
1 }iroceeded to get in right. I secured 
a horse and "Democrat'' buggy; ar- 
ranged with a few restaurants to call 
for their "scraps" every morning; 
paid them a trifle for them just to keep 
them interested — and then 1 made an- 
other discovery! 1 found a large bak- 
ery that W'Ould sell me old, stale bread 
which they had left over, for a song — 
two loaves for a cent! I speedily 
made arrangements with most of the 
l>akeries in town on the same basis. 
1 discovered on test, that our laying 
hens did wonderfully well on this diet. 
From time to time I was compelled 
to suii[dement this "scrap" diet with 
little purchases of "store feed," but T 
think on the whole that the 700 laying 
hens of which my flock now consists 
show as big a mart.Tin of profit as any 
similar flo(dv of "utility" hens in the 
country. As neai' as I have been able 
to figure it, it does not cost me over 
-'.I cents ])er year to keep a hen, and 
1 won't keej) a hen on the jjlace that 
<loes not give nie 10 dozen eg.qs per 
year. T get the top prices for my eggs 
by selling them to a select line o^ cus- 
tomers. We are inaking a good living 
and fast paying for our farm. 



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A Most Extraordinary Outdoor Industry 



Tills "farm'" is eomliicted in small 

space I Not ]60 acres — not even 60 

acres — not even five acres! One acre 

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of a back yard will do — and if you 
haven't even that, do this kind of 
farming on some one else's property; 
utilize the sunny side of Mr. Jones' 40 
acre farm — he won't care — so long as 
you do not stej) on his corn nnd sweet 
potatoes! 

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mission to utilize his farm for this in- 
dustry you can make from one hun- 
dred dollars ])er week and not inter- 
fere with him in the least! That's 
what a young girl in Southern Cali- 
fornia is doing and the manner in 
which she does it reads like a tale 
from the Arabian >vights. 

What she is doing YOF can do — 
if you have the same quality of pa- 
tience jiossessed by this estimable 
young miss. 

She, herself, says you can do the 
same thing she is doing — and she ought 
to know. 



What She Does. 

Slie raises ilies for the inarket! 

Yv'hile you are busily engaged in 
''swatting'" flies, she is busily engaged 
in |iro]iagatiiig them. And she is get- 
ting a fat bank account! 

The flies which she raises, howo\'(^r, 
are not the same kind yon ''swat;'' 
not the kind that awaken you at 4 
"(dock in the morning by their jiei'- 
sisteiit determination to wallv over tlie 
bald spot on t'^p of your head to ynur 
profane disct)nifnrt. T'he flies wliir'n 
she raises and \vhi(di are makiuii Iilt 



prosperous are Butterflies! 

I have treated on this suliject before 
- — in my ISIew Bulletin, which you may 
have had, but since issuing that Bul- 
letin I have learned a lot of new 
things. I have obtained further facts, 
figures and j)lans which supplement 
the Bulletin that 1 wish to tell you 
of. 

This California girl has made a most 
])henomenal success of her venture, 
from her very first beginning. She 
first conceived of the plan in June. In 
three weeks she shipped 1,.500 butter- 
flies and moths for which she received 
$75. This is five cents a piece. In 
less than three months more she had 
shipped over ten thousand additional, 
netting her over .$500. She then 
awakened to the ])ossibilities in the 
matter and took hold of the thing in 
a more systematic manner, and today * 



she is (dearing, according to leport, 
around one hundred dollars 2:>er week. 
J sujjjyose she will soon spoil the whole 
thing l)y marrying a nine-dollar-per- 
week man, l)ut iip to now the facts are 
as 1 am relating them. 

T ]iresume the question right now 
whi(di you are waiting to asJv is, 
"Where <loes she find the market? To 
whom does she sell them?" 

She says this is the easiest part of 
it. She savs she could sell ten times 



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booked up a year ahead of her produc- 
tion. She finds all kinds of unique 
and unexpected openings for her 
"flics.'" Just recently she sold oW 
to a department store. They wanteil 
them to liberate in their window for 
a window display. The store paid her 
."() cents each for them. Society peo- 
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with will soon proiiagate one hiuulred 
thousand; the average female will lay 
around 250 eggs in a season. 

The initial breeding stock may be 
eajitured by what is known as' the 
"sugaring process," i. e., diluting 
brown sugar with water and Jamaica 
rum, making a paste of it. Smear this 
substance on trees, stumps, etc. The 
capture is made at dusk of both but- 
terflies and moths. A miner's lamp is 
used (carbide) also a pair of forceps 
for handling the "flies" and paper 
bags in which to place them when cap- 
tured. 

This young lady proceeds as follows 
in making her capture: She takes a 
bull's eye lantern and approaches her 
suggared trees after dark. The lan- 
tern blinds the "flies;" she holds a 
cyanide bottle under them, taps them 
on the head and they fall into her 
paper sack, unconscious from this an- 
aesthetic. Any druggist can furnish 
a cyanide bottle. 

After she has cai)tured a lot of 
them, she lays them on a paper and 
sorts them. The females she puts into 
paper bags for breeding purposes. Any 
of the specimens which die from the 
cyanide are placed in another bag and 
sold at once. 



aiiyles whi(li you will learn as vou go 
along. 

This style of "intensive farming" 
on some other man's farm is possible 
in almost any section of the country. 
The summer and the fall are the times 
to do the "sugaring" and capture 
them in their native wilds. Jn the 
winter time they live dormant. I am 
speaking now of the larvae or eggs. 
They will iie dormant in the cellar all 
winter and hatch in the spring. 

Hhis California girl carried 20,000 
eggs through last winter, which hatch- 
ed this last spring. 

No particular scientific knowledge 
is needed for this in<lustry; you can 
find all the information required in 
almost any book devoted to insect lift. 
Eead up — study up and "get busy." 

This business is so unusual, so 
unique and has such possibilities be- 
hind it that I am willing to label it 
"the most amazing out-of-door bus- 
iness in the world." ]t is especially 
a good thing for women, for men who 
need to get out of dors into tiie fresh 
air and for those barred by various 
reasons from more strenuous methods 
of obtaining a living. 

As one progresses in this industry, 
he will learn much to his advantage; 
he will learn to distinguish the differ- 
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To Mount Them. 

Glue sheet cork into cigar boxes 
and pin the "flies" to it. Pack the 
cigar boxes so they will carry safely 
by mail — and there you are! 

To care for captive butterflies and 
induce them to breed, place them in 
paper bags with the proper food. They 
will do the rest. You can feed them 
on dried apples, soaked in sugar. 

My a<lvice is to secure a book on 
insects, which contains also instruc- 
tions as to butterflies, and study it. 
Everything connected with this indus- 
try is so very simple that even a child 
could soon learn it, but at the same 
time there are manv little kinks and 



get 
of this kind — to his great financial ad- 
vantage. Now listen to me a bit fur- 
ther; orignally it was my intention to 
put this into this book only those 
things that I, personally, had seen done 
— or at least t-ose things that bear 
the stamp of "practical" right on the 
face of them. But, here is something 
so novel and so fascinating that T am 
giving the idea room even though it 
comes from afar and I am compelld 
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Calif.., and there is no doubt as to 
what she has done; the evidence comes 
from several sources. And only re- 
cently comes confirmation again as to 
this business from still more reliable 
sources. 

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A Waiting Opportunity In A Neg- 
lected Field 



Here is a real opportuntiy that has 
been passed over, unotie-ed by the great 
majority. A little capital would not 
be at all objectable here, bnt the man 
with only the nominal one— or even a 
small one can from a modest beginning, 
work up to something worth while. 

GOATS— THAT'S IT! 

This is a peculiar proposition; it is 
an amazing proposition in a neglected 
field. ]t is chiefly valuable to the 
farmer small or otherwise, who has a 
lot of waste land and who does not 
know wlmt it is good for. Goats will 
thrive where cows — • or other varities 
of domestic animals would starve. 

The Ignited States Bureau of Animal 
Industry has taken official notice of 
this industry and issued a bulletin 
baring upon the subject. 

There are many readers of this book 
Avho are possessors of farms, the major 
part of which are perhaps but barren 
wastes; this waste land could be util- 
ized to support a flock of goats — which 
are worth money. 

Carrying the idea still further, tlie 
man of considerable capital could, for 
a trifle, obtain possession, in almost 
any section of the country, of a thou- 
sand acres of land considered almost 
valueless; on this land he could raise 
a vast herd of goats. Goats propa- 
gate rapidly; the female will start 



bearing young at the age of 6 or 7 
months, not infrequently giving liirth 
to three "kids" at a time. 

The man with .$1,000 of capital 
would do well to look into this neg- 
lected field. The "little fellow"' with 
small capital can start small and work 
up. ' ' ^Vorn out ' ' farms are every- 
where; farms too hilly and broken to 
be rated as farming land are on every 
hand. Such farms can be secured very 
cheaply and on almost any terms. 
Goats will thrive there. 

Another angle suggests itself in con- 
nection with goats. Those who know 
best kno\i- that the most healthful and 
most nourishing milk in the world is 
goats milk. For invalids, for babies, 
it is more than a food — it is a medi- 
cine. 

]n many localities right now are 
"goat dairies"' supplying milk at 
good prices to a select trade. 

]t is not hard to establish such a 
market in any locality. The demand 
today is a million times greater than 
the sup])ly. 

I would classify a goat dairy as a 
poor man's opportunity to get into a 
rich man's field, i. e., dairying. 

The more you think this over the 
better it will look to you. 

I will state, in closing, that 5 cents 
a day will keep a goat; that she gives 
2 or 3 quarts of milk daily and that it 
can be sold at 2.5 cents per quart. 



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all wallvs of life, have tol.l 
me that they had access to as much 
land as would perhaps equal a city 
lot, and have asked me what they 
could do with it to make it produce 
something for spare time effort. 

There are many pages in this hook 
that answer this cpiestion; some of 
them are unique, unusual and novel. 

"Among the "old line'-' things that 
are grown in field or garden, there are 
three aiticles that stand out in a class 
by themselves as big money-makers in 

small space. 

The First is Tomatoes. 



One quarter acre in tomatoes 
lot; strictly siieaking it is nearer 
lots of the sulxlivision kind. It 
raise enough of tomatoes, if it's 



s a 

two 

will 

good 



soil, to lu'ing in a lot of spare time 
money. Green tomatoes for pickling, 
ripe tomatoes for eating; it will keep 
you Ijusy picking and selling tomatoes 
for many weeks. 1 mention this arti- 
(de because a little land goes a long 
wav with it. 



Another 
space. 



Asparagus. 



big monev-maker in small 



I'mperly careil for 
sjiaragus will make 



1-S or 1-4 acre of 
a lot of money. 
]t is of perennial variety; that is, once 
started it comes up of its own volition, 
vear after vear. 



One aci-e 
mighty close 
living. 

The market 
cities the 
supply. 



of asjiaragus will come 
to making any family a 

is greeily for it; in most 
demand is greater than the 



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good one with wlii(di to build u]> a 
'"direct to the consumer '' jjaiTcd jiust 
line of customers. Asjjaragus is pecul- 
iarly a good thing for this as it would 
be convenient to mail. Also because 
the i)eoi)le in the cities cannot easilv 
get real good asparagus. They can 
go out to the corner market and ])uv 
asjiaragus — yes; but it has been gath- 
ered too long; it has not been ]d(d<ed 
at just the right time; it tastes 
"woody.'' The people would welcome 
asparagus, right from the garden — 
crisp, tendei' — >the diffei-ent kind at 
double the price. 



Horse Radish. 

The multum en parvo iierenniall A 
city lot in hoise radish would yield a 
lot of money when it was grated and 
put U}! ill small bottles. Alwavs a 
sale for it, too. 



Horse radi; 
accor<l every 
the start. 



h comes up 
vear after 



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it once 



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gets 



] recei\-ed a letter just recently from 
a friend who says that horse radish is 
good for a profit of from .fi,.5()() to 
.t2,()00 j.er acre. And 1 happen to know 

that this is true. 



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Over and above ail these things 
er.s one alluring idea — the home 
ning business! It's the one best 
Can the tomatoes; can overythiiig 
can get your hands on! 



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Considering these things from the 
standpoint of "city lot farming" only, 
it still means a substantial reduction 
in the high cost of living. You will. 



many of you, consider it on 
scale after grailuating from 
dergarteu (dass. 



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Making Money With Pheasants 



This fowl is not generally known, in 
so tar as raising it for commercial 
purposes is concerned. A few people 
are in the business and the reports 
sound good. 

For the most part the su^jply of 
pheasants for the market has been im- 
ported. High class hotels and restau- 
rants pay high jirices for this delicacy 
and charge proportionately on the bill 
of fare. 

Pheasants come under the head of 
"Game." The demand would be good 
if there was any visible supply. 

The attention of the people of this 
country has been called a little more 
to this beautiful bird during the past 
few years; (piite a lot of jieople are 
starting to raise them. You will hear 
more of this industry in the years to 
come. Now, whih' the "ground floor" 
op])ortunity is cjien, is a good time to 
start. They are not especially hard 
to raise — not more so, probably, than 
chickens. The "English" is the most 
popular bree<l. 

Jn starting with pheasants whicli 
have been brought to a new home, con- 
siderable care is at first necessary, 
]>oth in feeding and in protecting them 
from their natural enemies. A small 
grove containing underbrush and high 
grass is the best "run" for them. 

Their food is al)Out the same as that 
of hens. 

They do not mind severe cold, Imt 
shoubi be ju'otected from rain and 
dampness. 

It dees not cost nuich to feed them; 
they run very largely to profit. They 
will eat any kind of grain, meat food, 
scraps, etc., and require grit with it. 
They require jdeuty of water and 
the same rules as to cleanliness of 
their quarters ]irevails as well for this 
fowl as for hens. 



Most people prefer to set their 
pheasant eggs under a motherly old 
hen; they become better domesticated 
in this way. Pheasants, you under- 
stand, are naturally a little wild. 

The care of the young is much the 
same as the care of baby chicks. Pro- 
tecting them from weather extremes, 
clean quarters and careful feeding is 
all that is necessary. For the first 
few days a diet of a custard composed 
of 5 eggs to a pint of milk is the 
thing; when they are two weeks old 
they are past the danger point. 

There is a positive demand for this 
industry; there is a positive price for 
its product and a surety of success for 
the man or woman willing to take 
enough of jiains to learn the ins and 
outs. 

In making the initial start I would 
go through the principal poultry pa- 
pers looking for breeders who have 
stock for sale. You will usually find 
such advertisers in the classified de- 
partment. The breeder from whom 
you obtain your initial stock will 
cheerfully su])ply all missing details 
as to theii' raising ;tn<l care. 

The demand for your product need 
not worry you; the high (dass "eating 
joints" will take care of you. 

1 believe, however, that the selling 
of the stock for breeding purposes 
forms the most attractive side of the 
business; larger prices can be obtained 
— then, too, it oljviates the necessity 
for the slaughter of these beautiful 
little creatures wliicdi would be a big 
item with myself. 

"Take a chance" on anthing that 
looks good, but don't "plunge" until 
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Two Unique Back Yard Industries 



Tlie first jilaii 
rnisiiii' of iniiiks 



for 



I nutsliell 
tlioir fur. 



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Those who claim to l)e in a position 
to know say that it is enormously pro- 
fitable; that a mink skin is now worth 
+ S.(i(l anil that the price is rapidly ad- 
vanciui;; that a female gives from '■'> 
to Ji young ones a year — i. e., jiroiluces 
an average of $50 per year from her 
increase. In this ratio one or two 
hundred females would jiroduce an en- 
\ialde income. 

It is (daimed that they are as easy 
to care for and raise as cats and that 
50 can l)e cared for in an ordinarv 
ba(d< yard. 

I ha\e dug up the following infor- 
mation on their care: 

]Minks should be kept in the propor- 
tion of one male to five females. 



Each breeding 
a seiiarate ]>en. 



female should have 



They are bred in February and the 
young are l>orn in April; they are fit 
to turn off in December. 



Tlie males are ke])t to themselves 
except at mating time. 

Eread and milk, corn mush and milk 
is their staple fooil. They should have 
meat or fish two times per week. 

Tliey are fed once daily, except fe- 
males with youTig, which are fed twice. 

T'lenty of fresh water in clean pans; 
no salt in their food. 

Pens should be about 7 feet square, 
the sides of smooth boards, four feet 
long and set np with the lower end 
resting on concrete l-S inches from the 
ground. Pens may be built in groups 
of four or more. The floor of tlie pen 
should be on the bare ground. 

Boxes 2xl^,xl; feet should be i>ro- 
vided for nests. These should have 
hinged lids to allow them to be opened. 

Poxes may be bolted to the fence 
with a hole in them to admit the ani- 
mals. These, boxes should be several 
in(du"'s above the ground and should 



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ing Jinks. 

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SKUNKS. 

farmiiiir 



is liOcoming more 
in vogue. The natural l)orii 
nowadays is looking for 
the unusual ways. Let me tell you 
right here that it sometimes happens 
that the "freak" farmer makes more 
real money from his unii|ue acre or 
half acre than does the big dairy farm- 
er with 300 acres of ground. 



The 
kunks 



'tij)" here considered 
Skunks for their fur. 



Skunks are not so serious as a 
whole lot of people imagine. A trifling 
surgical operation when mere babies 
— and they l^ecome as harmless as kit- 
tens. Their fur is very valuable and 
a l:)a(dv yard will furnish enough room 
to turn off hundreds jier year. 

They are not much different to care 
for than cats. The principal require- 
ment is to so construct their yardiip^ 
that they can neither (dimb out nor 
burrow out. 

The late ]\[ark Twain once told of 
a man who was in the business of 
skunk fanning. He ol)served that this 
man was getting rich, but "did not 
nio\-e much in the Ijest society. "' ^lark 
was e\'i(lently moved to this remai-k 
by his recollection of the skunk he 
bumjied into one dark night Aviien he 
Avas a boy. He probably thought, in 
the darkness, that it was a neighl)or's 
jiussy cat — and you know the rest! 

As a matter of fact these little crea- 
tures, when surgically treated, soon 
after they are born, are perfectly 
harmless and even become afi'ectionate 
jjets. Look this over, but do not take 



my word for it, as 1 am not furnish- 
ing cither of the ])lans in this chaji- 
ter except as "ti])s" which you should 
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An Astonishing Method of Preserving Eggs 



1 am simply going to tell you of this 
one, and 1 want you to try it out on 
a small scale for yourself before doing 
anything rash. This scheme comes to 
nie well vouched for and it looks very 
plausible, but 1 have not tested it out. 

The astounding angle in this thing 
is that it don't cost anything to pre- 
serve eggs in this way, except the in- 
itial cost of a few old barrels. 

For about four months of the spring 
r)n<l summer eggs go away down in 
jirice. Wise ones take advantage of 
This fact to ''pirkle" 'em and unload 
in the winter when the ])rire is soar- 
ing. Those peo]ile who ha\en't hens 
of their own, have found it very pro- 
fitable to buy them, preserve them and 
await tlie fancy price — which always 
'•omes. 

XoAv, here is a method that is all 
profit: Take a box or barrel; cover 
the bottom, to the depth of several 
incdies, with common road dust; take 
your eggs, work them down, small end 
foremost, until thffy are completely 
covered, each egg by itself, with the 
■lust; then a lot more of dust, then 
more eggs, progressing to the top of 
the recei)tacle, the top layer being 
deeply covered Avith the dust. 

Eggs have been kept in this way, 
exjierimentally, and on using them, the 
following winter, found equal to new 
laid eygs. The dust should be sifted 
and all coarse substances eliminated. 

This is worthy of a try-out; if it 
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Up a new era in money-making. You 
it mvself this vear. 



can well afford to l>uy eggs to preserve 
if you are not raising theui; it is a 
money-making proposition — but first 
test it out for yourself. 

Speaking of egg preservatives, T will 
give you here my regular formula. 
This formula cost me a lot of money 
some years ago, though at the present ^ 
time the method is in general use. 
Here is the formula: 

Purchase from your druggist as much 
silicate of soda as you may wish. IMix 
it with cold water in the projjortion of 
six parts of water to one of silicate of 
soda. T^se newly-laid eggs, not more 
than one week old. Dip each egg sep- 
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pour over the eggs enough of the solu- ^ 
tion to entirely immerse them. Do not "f* 
fail to dip each egg separately ])efore 
]ilacing in the vessel, and hold the egg 
in your hand for two or three seconds 
after you have dipped it, that the coat- 
ing may set, and ])lace in the vessel as 
directed. Cover the vessel up and the 
next day, or the next week, as the 
case may be, when you wish to add 
more eggs, repeat the operation of dip- 
ping, set the eggs in on top of those 
already in the vessel, and cover again 
Avith the solution. You will find the 
air has been entirely excluded from the 
shell, and the egg has been hermejtically 
sealed and will stay fresh indefinitely 
if vou have pro])erlv handled them. 

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the 'dusty roads" method best if it * 
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Those Money -Making "Goobers'* 



The raisiii;^' of peiuiuts is oonfined 
mostly to the South, Init the faet is 
that they will grow almost anywhere 
where a well drained and fertile sandy 
soil can 1)6 furnished them. They 
need a long, warm summer, l)ut that 
is the kind we usually get in the east 
and middle west. 

One caution is due at the beginning: 
You can buy the seed of almost any 
peanut vender — but don 't plant roast- 
ed peanuts! Plant them about the 
same time you would early potatoes 
and in just about the same way. 

A scattering of wood ashes and well 
rotted compost will help much and 
should be thoroughly worked into the 
soil before the nuts are planted. Keep 
free from weeds and cultivate as for 
]H)tatoes. Tt is well to slightly ridge 
up the soil about the ])lants when the 
small yellow blossoms appear. These 
show for a day or so and at the drop- 
jiing or falling off of these, small root- 
like sprouts grow out from the blossom 
stems and jienetrate downward into 
the soil. Tt is on the ends of these 
shoots that the peanuts are to forni 
after they have gone down a sufficient 
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soil loose and fine about the plants all 
through the blooming season. Be care- 
ful not to tear the vines loose from 
the tender rootlets that have started 
to grow down all along the stem for 
these are the nut bearing stems or 
rootlets from which we are to expect 
a crop later. It ma be best to cease 
cultivation after the blooms have 
shown some three weeks and merely 
keep the patch free of weeds. 

Peanuts require a long, hot season 
so they should be planted as early as 
possible and allowed to grow until 
killed by frosts so as to ripen all the 
nuts possible. The peanut begins to 
flower in the early summer and con- 
tinues if not checked by some means 
till nipped down by frosts. 

In digging loosen up under the vines 
with a fork, then take the vine in 
both hands and pull it up with the 
nuts attached. Turn the vines over 
and leave a few days to dry before 
picdcing off the peanuts to store. Be 
sure the kernels are well dried before 
storing and then place in some dry 
room away from the mice. A jiatch of 
peanuts, w'ell cared for, will astonish 
you when you see the jirofit in them. 



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A iioteil lecturer, not so lopg ^go, 
made the statement that this hue and 
cry of "Back to the Soil" was mostly 
a ' ' fantasy. ' ' 

Only recently an agricultural paper 
made the assertion that there was no 
such a thing as a * ' l>ack yard bo- 
nanza. ' ' 

Is this movement to get back to na- 
ture and make a living there a "fan- 
tasy"?" 

Let those thousands upon thousands 
who have done it reply. You will find 
them everywhere — in every communi- 
ty, in every section. People who found 
life in the great cities untenable; who 
found the obtaining of a living under 
the white lights a heart-breaking task; 
who found their health going, their 
spirits breaking — and who, finally, in 
desperation, sought in the country a 
refuge and a living. Thousands upon 
thousands and then more thousands 
have found there health, hai)piness and 
what seems to them, prosperity. Let 
these uncounted thousands answer — is 
it a "fantasy?" 

There is another side, of course; 
those of weak wills who have not the 
stamina to "stick" until success 
comes; those who have made the effort 
and failed — there are plenty of this 
kind, too — more's the pity! 

The answer is: Do nothing hasty or 
ill-advised; weigh all the chances; see 
that the coast is clear for the advance 
before you make it; discount failure 
and be prepared — if failure comes. 
Thousands are to<lay reaping the re- 



sults of victory — but they made 
necessarv sacrifices at the first. 



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You are no less a man than 
other fellow, but you must creep 
fore you can walk; govern yourself 
with discretion and "go to it!'' 

As to the assertion that there are 
no " Dack yard bonanzas," my reply 
is: 

It has actually happened! It is hap- 
pening right now! It has been done — 
it is being done — and done and done! 

With sih-er gray foxes — the first 
start obtained — .+5,000 yearly can be 
done! ]My modest statement 
former book of .t;{,000 yearly, 
thus increased. 



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J personally know of men 
sul)urbs of Chicago who are 
bonanzas in mushrooms, with no more 
space than a back yard. Ginseng the 
same; many things in this book ditto. 

Here's another point: I am not 
claiming great fortunes, as a rule, in 
l>ack lot "stunts." The greatest 

claim 1 make is tnat the right man. 
with the right schenre, can add vastly 
to his income by the proper use of a 
little bit of land. 

And I am searching the universe to 
find the "schemes.'' 

In all cases be conservative; do not 
spend much money on a scheme that 
looks good until you test it out for 
yourself and learn the ins and outs. 
Then plunge. 



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vou prosper. 

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